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thumb|Depiction of the soul leaving the body at the moment of death: The Grave (poem)|The Grave, illustrated by [[William Blake, engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1808]]

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Etymology
Religion
Buddhism
Unanswerable question
Two Truths
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Islamic philosophy (<span lang="ar-Latn">''falsafa''</span>)
Theology (<span lang="ar-Latn">''kalam''</span>)
Ismailism
Jainism
Judaism
Shamanism
Sikhism
Taoism
Philosophy
Socrates and Plato
Aristotle
Avicenna and Ibn al-Nafis
Thomas Aquinas
Immanuel Kant
Contemporary philosophy
Psychology
Parapsychology
See also
Notes
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thumb|Depiction of the soul leaving the body at the moment of death: The Grave (poem)|The Grave, illustrated by [[William Blake, engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1808]]

In religion and philosophy, the soul is the immaterial aspect or essence of a living being. It is typically believed to be immortal and to exist apart from the material world. Anthropologists and psychologists have found that most humans believe in the existence of a soul or spirit, and that they have cross-culturally distinguished between soul (or spirit) and body.